I'm wondering the same thing as Scott. It can take a few days before they appear. And there has been instances where they appeared at the three and four star range. It's not an exact science but five is when they appear 90% of the time.

I think I've seen a few complaints at the G forum where folks had 6 reviews - one I think even had 10 and no stars. But I don't know if it was a delay thing and maybe they showed up a couple days later.

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I think we might be in the age when Google will never be consistent, ultimately keeping us all on our toes and scratching our heads. I have noticed the 4.8 stars mentioned above and have never had an issue with reviews showing up within a couple days...Of course now that I have said that Google will now mess with me cause SHE has some serious telepathic powers sometimes. Thanks for the nice comments Linda. Our industry can be frustrating and I try to keep it light. Imagine doing local SEO for Yahoo.

That is curious I recently had a client get their reviews in the KG less than 48 hours after breaking the 5-review threshold. You may want to contact Google if this issue persists we have been noticing some interest things going on with reviews this past week.

No that was posted back in Feb. Ingenious SEM has their stars now Michael.

Sometimes Google is just slow.

I think someone at the Pro community said they did a minor edit on the page. (Just changed a word in description or something.) And they felt that helped ping Google to re spider the page and it picked up their new reviews and their stars showed up.

Looks like your 5th review was within the last week. May just need time to cycle through the system. But I have seen it in some cases where the 6th review will also kick in the stars. But hey, it's G, so who knows.